Charm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Duvall v. Reynolds (1998), Jack Dale Walker v. Gary Gibson (2000)
10 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Doyle v. Ohio · Beck v. Alabama · Schad v. Arizona
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of heat of passion are: 1) adequate provocation; 2) a passion or emotion such as fear, terror, anger, rage or resentment; 3) homicide occurred while the passion still existed and before a reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool; and 4) a causal connection between the provocation, passion and homicide.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nothing in these facts suggests anything but a design to effect the death of one specific person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“investigative reports by police and other law enforcement personnel,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BOSSE v. STATE · BOSSE v. STATE
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.